Teaching and Learning in World Wide Web-Connected Classrooms

Summary

Use of the Web as an instructional tool is growing rapidly as the nation's classrooms increasingly come online with high capacity bandwidth. To optimize the use of the Web as an instructional tool, the traditional roles of students and teachers must shift to that of an “engaged model” of teaching and learning. This article presents strategies for effectively teaching and learning on the Web and introduces SUR-WEB as an Internet-based multimedia resource for engaged learning.     

Review of the Study Findings

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Hypermedia:

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Web-Based Student Assessment for Program Evaluation

As part of an overall evaluation of the Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment, (GLOBE) program, we designed a Web-based assessment environment to measure students' environmental awareness and data analysis skill. It was expected that students who were identified as high implementers in the GLOBE program would outperform low implementers in their ability to construct environmental inferences and the degree to which they could analyze environmental data. Seven high and middle school classrooms were identified as either high or low GLOBE implementers depending on the amount of atmospheric data they had collected during the year. Within each classroom students were assigned into smaller learning groups of three students per group. A total of 32 groups participated in this study. Analysis of students' responses to the tasks revealed that the students differed in their performance. Overall, the results showed that students in the high implementing classrooms were more likely to construct higher-level environmental inferences than students in the low implementing classes. Contrary to expectations, middle school students were more likely than high school students to solve the data analysis problem correctly. However, upon further analyses, high school students constructed more data graphs and were more skilled in providing correct evidence to support their decision making than were middle school students in GLOBE. This study confirms the viability of using technology-based assessments for measuring students' environmental awareness and data analysis.     

编目工作的走向

通过对网络发展的论述, 阐述了编目工作将由对传统型图书资料的标目向对网上资源编目的方向发展。     

Web-based英语视听说自主学习效果分析

在大学英语对学生语言能力提出更高要求的形势下,新的大学英语教学模式应以课堂教学与在校园网上运行的英语教学软件相结合的自主学习教学模式为主要发展方向。基于局域网的大学英语视听说自主学习实证研究表明,学生的学习效果主要取决于其态度、能力及所处的环境。     

论《法律基础》课教学的矛盾及对策

在高校对大学生开设《法律基础》课不失为一条千秋大计。当前，在教与学的过程中，还存在着五对矛盾。探讨以科学的方法化解矛盾，使大学生懂得拿起法律之剑来治理国家的重大意义，使他们与人民群众的感情更加深厚，为人民服务的观念更加牢固，社会责任感得到进一步增强，乃是法律教学的当务之急。     

模式转变:网络教育中的导师

该文介绍了网络教育中从“教师”到“导师”的教学模式的转变,其远程教育理论基础、具体实施的原则。网络教育中的导师和原有的教师角色有着显著的区别,并可以由文字、程序和协同学习者来充当。这种角色的转变,最终会促成学习社会的实现,使得网络教育、终身教育威力倍增,并对社会发展带来深远的影响。     

高校教师对E-learning的认知和理解的调查研究

目前我国许多高校正在积极实施E-learning,以促进教学方式的转变和教学模式的改革。教师是推动E-learning的主要力量,他们对E-learning的认知、理解和态度很大程度上影响到了E-learning能否成功有效地实施。通过对从事E-learning的高校教师的深度访谈内容的分析研究,该文就教师对E-learning的认识、理解以及实践中的体验和存在的困难进行了详细地论述,以期对进一步推动E-learning的实施提供有益的借鉴和参考。     

网络教学平台切换时的数据移植

目前网络教学平台在高校中的应用已经普遍,而且一部分高校已经面临着新旧平台的更新换代问题。针对网络教学平台的发展现状,对网络教学平台的设计及新旧平台数据移植的问题借助实例提出了解决的方法。